Jared Polis Quotes

Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

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• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

  

  Karen Mills
  • World
  • Small
  • Grow

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

• Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Business
  • Model
  • Matter

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Believe
  • Peace
  • Path

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Champion
  • Train
  • Mindset

• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Color

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.

  

  Tana French
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Doing

• I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Small
  • Yoga

• Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Future
  • Today

• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Political

• Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Past